Adrian, When I get an annoying or offending dictionary entry, I first locate it in the list of words, then I either select change or delete.
Dave Carlson Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Spratt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 09:07 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS dictionary annoyance Hi. The other day, I added a JAWS dictionary item, but the pronunciation got assigned to the character preceding the word, not the word itself. The result has been annoying. Here's the explanation, and I hope someone has a solution. When invoking the dictionary, focus must have been on the space preceding the word I wanted. Carelessly, I just tabbed over to the replace field and typed in my preferred pronunciation. As a result, the space character was assigned that pronunciation. This is what makes the problem complex. It wasn't just any space. I'm guessing it's what I think is called a hard space (created with shift-spacebar) and possibly a space that's automatically coded into documents after a period, since the problem often occurs with the space following a period. Now, whenever JAWS is in "say all" mode, it will speak this character as "space." I emphasize that it doesn't do so for most space characters; just this one that I accidentally adjusted. Here's what I've tried. I copied the character into the JAWS dictionary and pressed spacebar in the replacement field. It made no difference. I re-copied the character in the JAWS dictionary and this time tried to save the entry without entering anything in the replacement field. But JAWS requires that something be entered there. One more bit of background. I recently endured a hard drive failure. Ever since recovering my applications and reinstalling JAWS, this particular character showed up as a non-verbalized blank. Before the hard drive crash, JAWS simply verbalized "space," but only when I was navigating character-by-character. It was not verbalized in "say all." Now that character is verbalized as "space" no matter what mode I'm in. No other possible solution is coming to me. Any ideas? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
